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ELA/[ER ELSWIORTH WATSON, OF HAMIIION, OHlO, ASSIGNOR rlO HERRlNG-HALL-MARVIN SAFE COMPANY, OF NEY YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEV JERSEY.

SAFE, VAULT, &o.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .my s, 190e.

Application filed February 18. 1905. Serial No. 246,326.

To fz/ZZ [alto/1t t may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER ELswoRTH lVATsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safes, Vaults, &c., of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention pertains to that class of safes, vaults, and other structures in which a door or closure well within the structure requires to be swung or moved outward through a doorwaj. or opening; and the invention consists in a novel construction and arrangement of hinge or supporting device designed to enable the door to be thus moved outward through the opening and then to be swung aside out of the way.

in the accompanying drawingsl have illustrated the construction and with their aid will now describe the same.

Figure l is a horizontal sectional view of the front walls of a safe or vault conventionally represented or without attempt to show the different layers and plates of which it is formed, the door and hinge or support being shown in full lines or in elevation. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the door and hinge, the front of the safe or vault being broken away. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the hinge or door-support. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

It is quite common at the present time to construct safes and vaults wi th a double front or with two walls at the front side separated somewhat from each other and each furnished with a"doorway or opening and with a door or closure therefor. Owing to the depth or distance within the safe at which the inner door is placed, it is diflicult to get it out of the way when opened to give access to the interior of the safe. To accomplish this result, l provide a hinge or support comprising a plate or member A7 which is bolted or otherwise made fast to the body of the safe, (here shown as bolted to the inner front wall B,) a long leaf or bar C, connected by a upon which the safe-door F is hung or pivoted.

The door F is hererepresented as of circular form, and a single hinge or support is shown; but these matters are optional and may be varied at will.

The bar or leaf C is of V shape on its upper and lower edges, and the carrier or block D is furnished with grooved rollers (l and e, respectively above and below the bar, designed to run upon the V-shaped edges of the same to guide the carrier and reduce friction, so that the carrier and the parts supported by it may be readily moved along the bar O. In practice there should be at least two of the upper rollers d and preferably though not necessarily, two of the lower rollers. These rollers are advisabljv' given a peculiarform of groove to prevent binding or rubbing upon the bar; but this feature constitutes no part of the present invention, and hence will not be further referred to herein.

Bar O is provided at its outer or free end with astop-lugf, Figs. l, 2, and 3, to prevent block or carrier D from moving too far outward.

The carrier or block D is formed with two heavy knuckles or projecting lugs g g, separated to permit the entrance between them of a knuckle 7L of the yoke or crane E, the hinge pin or pintle passing through the several knuckles and connecting the parts, as shown. The yoke or crane E is projected upward and downward from the knuckle 7L and also laterally or horizontally therefrom. Its upper and lower arms bear the stems or pintles c, which enter perforations in blocks or hangers G, bolted or otherwise made fast to the door F near its top and bottom, the

hangers projecting outward from the face ofV the door sufliciently to bring their perforations or sockets to proper vertical plane to receive the pintles c, as shown. i

lThe parts being thus constructed and assembled their operation is as follows: Assuming that the door be closed, as indicated in l, (in which position it may be retained by any suitable locking device,) it is opened by iirst unlocking it and then drawing it forward until it clears the opening in the inner wall and in case of a separate outer wall swings outward through the lat- IOO ter'. As the door is thus moved outward by swinging bar C about its hinge-pin a it is 'also moved laterally by sliding or rolling carrier D upon the bar C untilv said carrier iinally reaches and is stopped by the lug f. When the carrier is in this position, the yoke or crane E will project beyond the end of the bar, and the door may then be swung about the axis of the pintles c from a position on the inner toa position on the outer side of bar C, after which the crane and door may beY swung about the hinge-pin b to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. In this latter position it will be'entirely out of the way of the frontopening of the safe and free access to the interior may be had.

It will of course be understood that the rollers may be omitted from the carrier, that the cross-section of bar C may be varied, and that other details may be varied without departing from or aHectin'g the scope and spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- Y Y l. In combination with a safe, vault or other structure having an opening or doorway, a door or closure therefor; and a hinge or support for the door, comprising a yoke or crane to which the ,door is pivotally connected, a block or carrier to which the crane or yoke is hinged, a bar upon which the carrier is mounted and along which it is movable, and a plate or leaf to which said bar is hinged or jointed and which is in turn secured to the body of the safe or structure.

2. In combination with a vault, safe or like structure provided with a doorway, a

door or closure therefor, and a support for K the door comprising ya twoepart hinge, one part attached to the body of the structure and the other hinged to the iirst and adapted to extend across the doorway a carrier movable longitudinally upon the movable member of the hinge and a yoke pivotally attached to the carrier and having the doorV pivotally attached to it, said yoke adapted to project beyond the end of the movable member of the hinge, whereby the door is adapted to be swung from one to the other side of said hinge member.

3. In combination with a safe or like structure, a hinge comprising a plate rigidly s'ecured to the body of the structure, and a bar jointed thereto and movable about the hinge-pin,- al carrier movable upon said bar; and a door mounted on said carrier and adapted to swing om one to the other side of said bar.

4. In combination with a safe or like structure provided with a doorway, a hinge having one member adapted to extend across the doorway; a carrier .mounted and movable lengthwise upon said member, and a door supported by said carrier and arranged to swing from one to the other face of said hinge memben 5. In combination with a safe or like struch ture provided with a doorway, a door; a hinge having one member adapted to extend across the doorway and a yoke or crane slidably supported. upon said member and in turn supporting the door, substantially as described and shown.

6. In combination with a safe or like structure and its door F, a hinge or door-support comprising leaf or plate A, bar C ointed thereto, carrier D, movable lengthwise of bar C, crane or yoke E, pivotally attached to carrier D, and blocks or hangers G connecting the door F with said yoke.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELMER ELSWORTH WATSON.

Witnesses:

W. C. FULLER, ALEXR. W. MARR. 

